We Are All the Same in the Dark Quotes

“Life is never yours. You are just renting it out while the landlord in the sky ups the price until you can’t pay anymore”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“In the dark, all that's left is our souls.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Natives often return, especially the ones who swear they never will.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Wouldn't you be happier if the thing that defined you to the world was not what you were missing?”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“The truth is, I’m not brave. I’m not even that willing. I’m just more afraid of one thing happening than the other.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Loving dark men is a seesaw. They never tell you everything. You always wonder if the tiny red spot on a shirt is really from a spaghetti dinner like they claim. But then they put a bird back in a nest. They pull a drowning kid out of the water. And that’s all it takes. The spaghetti is not blood.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Why do men have to kill beautiful things?”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Moral high ground is a pleasant place to perch, even if the view turns about to be rather limited, in scope.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“The avengers outside are the worst kind, the ones in silver cross necklaces, baseball caps, and Life is Good T-shirts. The ones who stay up until midnight to build their first-graders’ Alamo projects out of sugar cubes, cancel a Thanksgiving cruise to bring Grandma some turkey in the hospital, spend a full paycheck on ACL surgery for the family dog. Their love for God and family is just as manic as their hate.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“We are all the same in the dark. My mother said that to me when she kissed me good night. She meant that in the dark, all that’s left is our souls.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“The more I live, the more I binge Netflix and read overhyped novels, the more I think that knowing the ending is overrated, that the beginning and middle are enough. Answers aren’t going to change anything.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“That said, this stretch of Texas road is all blue sky and endless pancake. I just listened to a couple of truckers at a diner down the road concur that this piece of Texas countertop proved the earth was flat, and that Donald Trump’s wall was thought up secretly to protect us from falling off.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“I had plenty of hours to memorize every stroke of this da Vinci, down to the salt Judas knocked over, making it forever bad luck to spill salt. One of my uncle’s most effective sermons was called “Devil and Salt.” He preached that when you spill salt, the noise wakes the devil, who sleeps on your left shoulder. But if you throw a little extra salt over your shoulder, the devil is blinded.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“It is a profound thing, to know a boy his whole life.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Money is everything. It is life. It is happiness. It is the kind of blind I want to be.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“What’s coming is always unimaginable, and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“The river that ran by my Oklahoma trailer park was filthy with washed-off sins.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“At the time, Trumanell’s father, Frank Branson, also missing, was suspect No. 1. His son, Wyatt, was No. 2. It had been twenty days. The local cops, far outnumbered, had the choice of pulling out guns and laying waste to the people they sat next to at church or standing back and watching their crime scene get destroyed”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Imperfect pieces that when put together make something beautiful and original.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“If everybody’s holes were as obvious as a missing body part, what would the word disabled even mean? Would we erase disabled from the dictionary? Would the word not even exist, because all of us are both broken and whole?”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Maybe our whole world is somebody’s single tear.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“I saw a dried tear under a powerful microscope once. It looked like a black-and-white aerial view of an Oklahoma ranch, all water squiggles and sharp architecture lines. The teacher said our tears look different under microscopes, depending on whether they are happy or sad.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Her eyes are stuck on my DIY stick-and-poke tattoo, a lopsided heart, on the soft part of the back of my hand near my thumb. It’s impossible to hide. Bunny says she will pay to have it lasered off, but Mary is out there somewhere with one that almost matches. The night before she ran away, she did mine. Then I did hers. Some people who are apart like to remember they’re staring at the same moon. This blurry little blue heart is my and Mary’s moon.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“How could he decide it was an F2 on sight alone? I’ve been through countless tornado warnings in my lifetime. Only one turned into the real thing. I was seven. It was a fat, shapeless blob that looked nothing like the perfectly drawn funnel on The Wizard of Oz. It was an F all right, and it stood for my aunt screaming fuck at the top of her lungs.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“My mother tried to convince me a troubling sky was as beautiful as a clear one. She’d tell me, “We don’t have mountains down here—we have storm clouds.” She said they were a sign of spring, part of life, something to get used to. If a thing creates solid terror every time, you don’t get used to it.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“It almost felt like somebody died when I learned Betty Crocker didn’t exist—that she was just a pleasant dream pulled together by a marketer. The death of Santa Claus was easier to take.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“Pitying a girl for something wrong with her face is just one rung up from bullying her for it.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“People don’t understand that words can rape.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“I don’t think all of these people are assholes—just that it’s way easier to see life through a screen.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“I say that strangers are powerful. They can mark you in twenty seconds. They can rob you at gunpoint so you never feel safe again. They can mention you’re pretty at a party when no one else ever has, and then you don’t kill yourself that day or maybe any other day. It’s like a diamond tossed out a car window you were lucky enough to catch.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark